Report: Police officer who shot Florida man with with mental disabilities was Mott Community College graduate

FLINT, MI -- A Florida police officer and Mott Community College graduate will face a grand jury after the shooting and killing of a suspect with mental disabilities, according to a Florida news report.

The Gainesville Sun reports that Gainesville Police Department officers Paul Forsberg and Stephanie Pridgen fired at 62-year-old Yahya Mujtaba, who had been threatening another man with a knife.

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Forsberg joined the department in 1982 after earning an associates degree from MCC, according to the story.

Here's an excerpt from the report:

"Yahya Mujtaba had his hands up, according to police, but he wouldn't let go of the blade. He was talking gibberish — not a foreign language, the investigators later told family.

He was within 20 feet. Police shot him with a Taser. No effect, they said. Two officers, Paul Forsberg and Stephanie Pridgen, pulled out guns.

According to police, Mujtaba didn't put the knife down. He was approaching aggressively, police said. They aimed for the chest. Mujtaba was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Afterward, in the rain, shell casings and a Taser lay on the pavement next to police markers. And the knife."

The incident occured June 24. Accoring to The Sun, Mujtaba came to America in 2004 from Afghanistan, where he was a retired colonel in the Afghan army.

The story notes Mujtaba was diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression in 2005.